Ice container for cabinet refrigerators



Oct. 9, 1928.

J. E. GLOEKLER ICE CONTAINER FOR CABINET REFRIGBRATORS Filed Aug. 17, 1926 alto-1mg Patented Oct. 9, 192 8.

' Jomv EDWARD GLOEKLER, or rrr'rsnunen, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Application filed August 17, 1926. Serial no. 129,747. I

My invention refers to improvements in the class of refrigerators, and particularly of the cabinet display type, utilizing a vislble receiving chamber and tin-adjacent communicating cooling chamber.

The particular features .of improvement involved herein is a containing box for crushed or cracked ice,'so constructed and arranged with relation to the main refrigerating chamber as to provide for a very complete air circulation through the outer rear and bottom wall of the ice holder.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a View showing a typical .fornrof refrigerating cabinet provided with my 1nvention;

Fig. 2 is a perspective View ice holding box detached.

' The main containing chamber A for perishable articles is within the interior of the refrigerating cabinet, having'a main supporting floor or bottom'2 mounted above a stand or foundation 3.

A front wall or partition 4, preferably composed of opening and closing doors of any suitable type, extend upwardly to the top 5 and is connected with the sloping wall 6, which extends downwardly at an angle toward the refrigerating chamber which is arranged along the outer portion of the cabinet. As indicated, the front, upper andrear sloping walls 4, 5 and 6 are glazed to provide visibility of the interior. a l

The ice containing chamber'is enclosed showing the within a vertical rear wall 7 and an upperhinged lid 8, capable of being opened for removal and replacement of the ice box. Bottom 2 is preferably provided with a depressed floor 9 and a suitable drain pipe 10 is connected therewith for carrying oif melted ice water.

The ice holding box 11 is rectangular in form, having a rear wall 12, a front imperforate wall 13 and a bottom 14. The rear wall and bottom are each provided with a large number of comparatively small perfor-' ations 15 and 16 respectively, for the purpose of providing for water drainage and air circulation downwardly through the cracked or crushed ice and through the bottom perforation 16. The numerous small perfora tions 15 in the rear wall also ensure circulation of air across and throughthe ice and finally through the rear wall perforations 15 and then downwardly underneath the bottom ofthe ice box to chamber A.

The upper edgesof rear wall 12, front wall 13, and the end walls 17 are turned inwardly as indicated at 18, providingcurved finished lifting edges for the ice box at the top. Supporting cross shoes or brackets 19 extend downwardly from bottom 14, holding the box upwardly above the depressed surface of floor 9, with ample inter-- vening air circulation space. Y

The perforations 15 andl6 arecompara tively small, say not over five-eighths inch in diameter, and are numerously placed across the entire area of the rear and bottom:

walls of the ice box.' They are therefore not sufiiciently large to allow any ofthe ice. to fall therethrough', and Will maintain the entire mass, While at the same time allowing for drainage of melted water and ample air circulation space over and through the contained ice throughout the entire length of the box.

A special feature of advantage in the inwardly' turned edges 18 is that the box may be grasped by the fingers on the inside for raising or lowering from or into its containing cavity in the cabinet, while the top opening is somewhat restricted in area for inflowing air.

The ice box thus completely fills the entire space of therefrigerator, and is preferably enameled over its surface, greatly adding to the appearance of the apparatus.

What I claim is:

1. In a cabinet refrigerator of the kind 1 disclosed, the combination with an upper casing enclosing a main receiving chamber and a laterally arranged ice-containing chamber in open communication therewith, of a main floor portion having an oflset depressed circulation and collecting space at the bottom of the ice-containing chamber and a rear Wall and an opening top in the rear of and over 7 i said space forming a portion of the casing, and an ice-holding box within the ice-containing chamber having an imperforate wall confronting the main chamber, a perforated bottom spaced inwardly above the depressed off-set bottom portion, a perforated rear wall confronting and spaced-inwardly from'the rear casing 'wall, and an open top spaced below the opening top of the ice-containing chamber. 7 i

2. In a. cabinet refrigerator of the kind disclosed, the combination with an upper caslng enclosing a main receiving chamber and a laterally arranged ice-containing chamber in open communication therewith, of a main floor portion having an off-set depressed. circulation and collecting space at the bottom of the ice-containing chamberand a rear wall and an opening top in the rear of and over said space forming a portion of the casing, and a rectangular ice-holding box within the ice containing chamber having an imperforate vertical wall confronting the main chamber, a perforated bottom provided with supporting pedestals resting on the depressed bottom portion ofthe floor and providing an intervening circulation space, a perforated rear wall confronting and spaced inwardly from the rear casing wall, and providedwith inwardly turned upper edge portions providing an open top spaced below the open ing top of the ice-containing chamber for inward circulation from the main chamber.

3. In a cabinet refrigerator of the kind "disclosed, the combination with an upper casing enclosing a main receiving chamber and a laterally arranged ice-containing chamber in open communication therewith, of a main floor portion having an off-set depressed circulation and collecting space at the bottom of the ice-containingchamber and a rear wall and an opening top in the rear of and over said space forming ,aportion of the casing,

a rectangular ice-holdingbox within the icecontaining chamber having an imperforate vertical wall confronting the main chamber,

a perforated bottom provided with support-f ing pedestals resting on the depressed bottom portion of the floor and providing an intervening circulation space, a perforated rear wall confronting and spaced inwardly from the rear casing wall, and provided with inwardly turned upper edge portions providing an open top spaced below the opening top of the ice-containing chamber for inward circulation from the main chamber, and a drain pipe leading from the depressed bottom portion of the floor.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature;

JOHN EDWARD eLonKLna I 

